The San José was returning to Europe laden with extraordinary wealth meant to fund Spain's war efforts when British warships intercepted it near the fortified port city of Cartagena, Colombia. The ...

Dollar Error For a Lincoln cent, however, the 1943 copper penny is extremely valuable, with circulated examples selling at ...

The classic one-cent coin is being retired, but it still has purpose.

DHAKA, Bangladesh -- A strong, 5.5-magnitude earthquake shook central Bangladesh on Friday, killing at least eight people and ...

Called the “Holy Grail of shipwrecks,” the Spanish galleon San José sank in 1708 after it was attacked by an English navy fleet in the Caribbean Sea.

The penny might soon be gone, but not forgotten. This family's patriarch instilled a fondness for wheat pennies in its ...

The U.S. Treasury Department announced that it has stopped producing pennies, ending more than 230 years of minting the 1-cent coin.

Swiss authorities are searching for two robbers who overpowered a security guard at an ancient Rome-themed museum in Lausanne, smashed a display case and made off with dozens of gold coins that had be ...

Archaeologists have identified more than a dozen ancient canoes that Indigenous people apparently left behind in a ...

Police stressed that the stolen objects had "archeological value," but said the monetary value had yet to be determined.

From first-edition books to family heirloom jewelry to baseball cards, you could turn these valuable collectibles into extra ...